How good are our guidelines? Four years of experience with the SAMJ’s AGREE II review of submitted clinical practice guidelines
Wiseman, Roger and Gray, Andy and Parrish, Andy and Miot, Jacqui and Cohen, Karen and Jamaloodien, Khadija and Blockman, Marc and Kredo, Tamara,South African Medical Journal, 108, 883-885 (2018),
doi = http://dx.doi.org/10.7196/SAMJ.2018.v108i11.13646,
publicationName = "Health and Medical Publishing Group (HMPG)",
issn = "0256-9574",
abstract= "The South African Medical Journal (SAMJ) is an established sourceof clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) serving the local healthcarecommunity. CPGs link professional societies and clinicians byguiding best practice through the collation and interpretation of thebest available evidence. Not only are CPGs important in standardisingthe quality of patient care, but they also assist with medicine selectionand resource allocation decisions, adjudicating medicolegal claims,and promoting equity by influencing medicine access and healthsystem organisation. In 2014, the SAMJ appointed an editorial subcommittee to reviewCPGs submitted for publication. This was in response to severalconcerns, including the global shift in CPG quality requirements,the potential effect of poor-quality CPGs on healthcare quality andcost, and the challenges South African (SA) CPG developers facein meeting new standards. This editorial reflects on the SAMJ CPGreview subcommittee’s experience over the past 4 years and describesthe value of more robust CPG development."
language="English",
type="Journal Article"